What's unfortunate about a movie like this is it plays out like a biography to try and make us feel a certain way about a man instead of honing in on some of the incredible social accomplishments that were created from it. What's great about a film like this is we get to see the abstract, yet monstrous genius of a man who only knew black or white. But, to fault Sorkin a little, there is a lot of talking. With Aaron Sorkin at the helm of the writers' table, we get some solid, witty and biting dialogue delivered by the acting crew with some wit and pizzazz. The film, starring Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs and Seth Rogen as Wozniak, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado over Labor Day weekend. We essentially get a look-in at how Steve Jobs morphed from 1984 to 1988 to 1998, and while Fassbender executes subtle differences in each year, it mostly feels like the same repeat scene three different times. It’s also easy to compare Sorkin’s portrayal of Jobs in Steve Jobs to his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, which earned him the adapted-screenplay Oscar in 2011. While it rightly deserves to be praised for the performance Michael Fassbender (most notably) and company put in over the course of two hours on screen, a few faults lie within the one note it seems to continuously strike through the three 'chapters' we get to see the tech giant live his life. It’s easy to imagine Steve Jobs as a stage production, actually, for its theatrical talkiness and the minimalism of its set design.
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